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Named Person: | Lyndon B Johnson; Lyndon B Johnson; Lyndon B Johnson; Lyndon B Johnson; Lyndon B Johnson |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
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Sidney M Milkis; Jerome M Mileur |
ISBN: | 1558494936 9781558494930 1558494944 9781558494947 |
OCLC Number: | 59881857 |
Description: | xxi, 490 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Lyndon Johnson, the Great Society, and the "twilight" of the modern presidency / Sidney M. Milkis -- Sixties civics / Hugh Heclo -- Pluralism, postwar intellectuals, and the demise of the union idea / Nelson Lichtenstein -- Contested rights : the Great Society between home and work / Eileen Boris -- Making pluralism "great" : beyond a recycled history of the Great Society / Brian Balogh -- Lyndon Johnson in the shadow of Franklin Roosevelt / William E. Leuchtenburg -- Great societies and great empires : Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam / Wilson Carey McWilliams -- Lyndon Johnson : means and ends, and what his presidency means in the end / David M. Shribman -- The politics of the Great Society / Frances Fox Piven, Richard A. Cloward -- The new politics of participatory democracy viewed through a feminist lens / Rosalyn Baxandall -- Freedom from ignorance? : the Great Society and the evolution of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 / Patrick McGuinn, Frederick Hess -- Medicare : the Great Society's enduring national health insurance program / Edward Berkowitz -- Justices and justice : reflections on the Warren Court's legacy / Henry J. Abraham -- The Great Society's civil rights legacy : continuity 1, discontinuity 3 / Hugh Davis Graham -- From tax and spend to mandate and sue : liberalism after the Great Society / R. Shep Melnick -- The Great Society and the demise of New Deal liberalism / Jerome M. Mileur. |
Series Title: | Political development of the American nation. |
Responsibility: | edited by Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur. |
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"You can't understand American politics today without understanding the 1960s, and you can't really understand the 60's without reading this collection of first-rate essays by some of the nation's most thoughtful observers of modern America." - Steve Gillon, author of Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever and How It Changed America" Read more...
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